Lesley & Brandon in Parkville, MO

A year after meeting at William Jewell College, Lesley Gardner and Brandon White were dating seriously enough that they began making plans to spend the rest of their lives together. They picked a wedding date and location, designed Lesley's engagement ring, and continued happily dating. THE BRIDE Lesley Gardner THE GROOM Brandon White THE DATE May 18 Still, that doesn't mean everything happened just as the bride-to-be expected. Brandon had Lesley convinced that her custom-made engagement ring still hadn't arrived. So when they were sitting together on Liberty Square one evening, she was floored to find Brandon proposing. I was enjoying the scenery, when out of the corner of my eye I saw Brandon on his knee with the gorgeous ring that I had patiently been waiting for, Lesley recalls. With the engagement official, Lesley carried on with the planning with the help of her mother and the Internet.